Independent Observability Architect

Observability isn't tax. It's leverage. When it's designed right. Stop paying too much for noise, alert fatigue, and dashboards nobody trusts. I help you cut costs up to 10x, reduce MTTR, and enable data driven decisions. Vendor neutral.

$2.5M saved 25 years experience Fortune 500 150TiB logs/day 8M+ samples/sec at scale

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Free consultation to 10x your Observability

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See how much you could save with an Independent Observability Architect compared to finding and hiring a Senior Observability Engineer or SRE.

Audit Your Observability Costs and Architecture

I audit your observability architecture to find where costs are exploding and reliability is suffering. Get a concrete roadmap with high-leverage optimization opportunities for Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, and OpenSearch stacks - including migration strategies to reduce costs. You keep the roadmap whether we continue working together or not. Start with a free consultation.

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Observability Cardinality Audit

Get an Observability Roadmap that gives you confidence to make decisions

Your roadmap includes:

Current state mapping: where your money goes
Signal and alert gaps you're missing
Cost-to-insight misalignment
High-leverage optimization options (3-5 specific opportunities)
Clear decision thresholds and tradeoffs

Start with a free discovery call. No pitch, no pressure.

You keep this roadmap whether or not we continue working together.

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Independent Observability Architect

Prometheus, Grafana, ClickHouse, OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Datadog & Splunk Consulting

25 years building observability systems that don't break - and don't break the bank. Battle-tested at Fortune 500 scale.

Led Observability at Fortune 500 Companies:

Successfully migrated away from Splunk, saving $2.5 million annually
Supported 300+ engineers
1 Billion+ active time series in Prometheus
8M+ samples/second, 150TiB logs/day at scale
Implemented Thanos and Mimir for Prometheus clustering

Built systems that actually work:

HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP compliant Observability Platforms
Architected Thanos/Grafana cluster: 1B+ unique time series
Open source contributor: Graphite, Prometheus, Thanos
Built StatsRelay (multi-million UDP packets/second capacity for StatsD)

Recognition:

Gertrude Cox Award recipient for innovative teaching with technology
Host of Cardinality Cloud YouTube channel
Host of operations.fm podcast
Conference speaker: Monitorama PDX 2023, Monitorama PDX 2019, All Things Open 2020
Industry thought leader

"In 2 paragraphs, Jack gave us more data than we had learned in the 3 years we were doing this. It wasn't what we were doing or needing to cut to save money. It was how we were doing it and what we deemed to be important versus what was actually important. After working with Cardinality: We were getting MORE valuable data and spending 37% less money to do it."

- Brandon Peskin, Turtle Systems, LLC

"Jack has been instrumental in helping bring our vision for KindHabitLabs to life. His expert skills have guided us through complex business challenges and transformed our ideas into real, functioning solutions."

- Trevor Shick, CEO, KindHabitLabs Inc

"Jack has proven his technical expertise through data migrations, including transitioning our data from Splunk to OpenSearch. His attention to detail and organizational skills made these migrations smooth and successful, minimizing disruptions and maintaining data integrity. His combination of analytical prowess, teamwork, and management skills is remarkable."

- Beth DeHart, Palo Alto Networks

Technology-agnostic expertise:

Prometheus • Grafana • Thanos • Mimir • Loki • Tempo • Datadog • ClickHouse • OpenSearch • Splunk • OpenTelemetry • Graphite • StatsD • InfluxDB • Honeycomb • Coralogix

Ready to See Where Your Observability Budget Is Going?

Start with a free discovery call to discuss your observability challenges.
No pitch, no pressure. Just a conversation to see if an audit makes sense for you.

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Email: jjneely@cardinality.cloud

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YouTube: @cardinalitycloud

Podcast: operations.fm